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Summer phytoplankton blooms in Auke Bay, Alaska, driven by wind mixing of the water column 1
Author(s) -
Iverson Richard L.,
Curl Herbert C.,
O'Connors Harold B.,
Kirk Deborah,
Zakar Karen
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1974.19.2.0271
Subject(s) - bay , water column , oceanography , phytoplankton , environmental science , photic zone , algal bloom , salinity , fetch , bloom , geology , nutrient , ecology , biology
Winds blowing from the southeast along the only significant fetch into Auke Bay mixed nitrate into the photic zone from deeper in the water column; major summer phytoplankton blooms in the bay resulted. The wind‐mixing effect could be monitored by measuring salinity changes in the water column caused by mixing of freshwater from the glacially originating Mendenhall River down into the water column.